, 1887-03-17
GossIp ABOUT spOKANITEs.
A few Clippings from En.tern Exchange.


Washington special to the Globe:
Congress having adjourned, the cap
itol wears deserted and dreary as
pect. Western members are almost
all en- route home. and the marble
halls Of the capitol lobby resound no
more to the tread ofsubtle schemers.
The Montana crowd here In the in
terest of the Rocky Forks and Cooke
City right Of way bill broke camp to-
day, highly elated over the success
of their measure. which will open up
the greatest coal fields In the far west.
Walter Cooper and wife left for Bos-
ton and j. B. Hubbell for New York.
j. S. Dickersun leaves for New
York. j. j. Browne, of Spokane
Falls, left This afternoon for New
York, where he will leave his wife
and invalid son, the latter for treat
ment. Mr.. Browne Is not happy on
account of the failure of the presi-
dent to sign the bill to attach the
panhandle Of Idaho to Washington
territory. The president was adj
championed by Stewart, of Nevada,
NtS out ttS WCukS w sc
cure the abrogation of the territorial
lines OF Utah and Idaho, and the ad-
dition of these sections to Colorado
and Nevada. w. A. Clark, the Butte
millionaire, Is still in New York
looking after his banking and min
ing interests nc the great financial
center. Delegate Toole, of Montana,
Is busily engaged in looking after
the interests of his constituency In
the departments, and cannot leave
for the west before the last of the
week. When he goes he will be ac-
companied by his neice, Miss Stout,
of Helena, who has been at school
here for the last two years. A. M.
Cannon, the Spokane Falls banke lis
at the st. James hotel, New York,
with Chief Engineer Paul Mohr, of
the Spokane & Palouse branch OF the
Northern Pacific. 1t Is understood
here that he is soon to wed pretty
Miss Cheeseborough, of the pension
department..
1t sounds somewhat queerly In the
ears of Eastern people to hear men,
tiOn made of eastern Washington
Territory. II was such phrase on
the lips of A. NJ. Cannon, Of Spokane
Falls, Washington Territory, that ar
rested attention the other day ut an
uptown hotel and caused much
laughter. Mr.. Cannon Is q banker
and the prompter OF various enter
prises in his part of the country. He
formerly lived ut Portland, Oregon,
but struck out In the wilderness of
Washington Territory for his health
and located at Spokane Falls when 1t
TnIsn,, ASnA Ass sko
Now it is a town Of 5000 inhabitants
running through 1t and two lines Of
south from its boundaries to tap the
surrounding country. One of these
roads goes to the Coeur d'Aiene
mountains, where the new gold
fields were discovered two or three
years ago. The other line runs from
Spokane Falls 10 the Snake river
country, and is in process of con-
struction. The railroad to the gold
field has been great advantage to
Spokane Falls, because 1t has made
that place the centre Of supplies for
the miners. Mr.. Cannon says that
the productiveness Of the field Is as
great as was anticipated, and that
more people are constantly going i'm
there to search for the precious
metal.
Mr.. Cannon's companion here is
Paul +. Mohr, the engineer under
whose direction the two branch rail-
roads have been built. The two
men are types of the energetic and
growing civilization of the far west.
Mr. Cannon is Il heavily built man,
with broad shoulders, Il slight stoop
and a narrow chest suspiciOusly in
dicative of the pulmonary trouble
for which he originally sought the
woods. He has a large forehead,
heavy face ami flowing black beard
reaching nearly to his waist. He is
plainly one of the pioneers, II self
educated and self-made man. Mr..
Mohr Is above six feet in height,
slender but we'll proportiOned, with
an intelligent face and brown mus
tache. Hej is not above thirty-five
years of age, college bred and thor
Oughly educated. 1t is i'm the union
of such men that great enterprises
are undertaken and completed on
the frontier.-New York Tribune.